Black-polled Yellowthroat - BirdForum Opus

Male
Photo by Raul Padilla
Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 2016

Geothlypis speciosa

Identification

13 cm
Male

• Browny-olive upperparts
• Black mask
• Greyish sides of crown and nape
• Deep yellow underparts
• Orange chest,
• Ochre flanks

Female

• Lacks mask
• Olive face
• Pale eye-ring
• Pale buff supercilium

Female
Photo by Raul Padilla
Yuriria, Guanajuato, Mexico, November 2016

Immature male - resembles male with black on face restricted to lores and ear-coverts.
Juvenile - brownish-olive head and upperparts, paler olive-yellow underparts, dark brown legs, black bill.

Distribution

Central America: found in the highlands of south-central Mexico (eastern Michoacán, southern Guanajuato and México).

Taxonomy

This is a monotypic species^[1].

An additional subspecies, limnatis is not recognised by most authorities^[2].

Habitat

Freshwater lakes and freshwater marshes with reedbeds.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet consists mostly of insects gleaned from cattails and other low vegetation. Little else is known.

Vocalisation

Call: harsh nasal chreh call. Song - rapid series of chip notes.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2016. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2016, with updates to August 2016. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. BirdLife International
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2016)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Black-polled Yellowthroat. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 27 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Black-polled_Yellowthroat

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